Quips, Quotes And Quanta: An Anecdotal History Of Physics
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
9812709193
ISBN-13
9789812709196
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of Manufacture
SG
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 25th, 2007
Print length
208 Pages
Product Classification:
History of sciencePopular sciencePhysics
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Deals with the history of physics, covering developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. This book concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. It enables readers to learn modern physics without the mathematical details.
This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major topics include relativity theory (both special and general) and quantum mechanics.This book is unique in that it concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. Both thematic and biographical in nature, it contains a heavy emphasis on personal incidents or quotes. Readers will be entertained with humorous incidents in the lives of some famous scientists, and simultaneously learn quite a bit of modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts. Academics and anyone interested in science in the most general sense are likely to want to read this book.
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